President Acknowledges to Students the Challenges of Making Incremental Changes to Policies

President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call to curb carbon emissions, saying the scientific debate on climate change is over and announcing a nearly $1 billion competition to fund measures coping with the effects of extreme weather.

"The climate change deniers suggest there's still a debate over the science," Mr. Obama said in remarks prepared for a commencement address at the University of California at Irvine. "There's not."

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